Quote by Irvin D. Yalom Download Open image ““Right, that's exactly what I mean by your being both the prisoner and the jailer.”” — Irvin D. Yalom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn’t even know he’s in prison.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“No one is a prisoner. Even you have the power to make your own choices.” — Dhonielle Clayton Copy Share Image
“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A HELL” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And not only Goethe but many other great Germans. Lessing and Heine reported a clarity and calmness that came from reading this book. Who knows, there may come a time in your life when you, too, will… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable stages of therapy to a foreknown goal, such is rarely the case: instead, as these stories bear witness, therapists frequently wobble, improvise, and grope for direction. The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
